1898 Penn Quakers football team

1898 Penn Quakers football
ConferenceIndependent
Record12–1
Head coach
CaptainJohn H. Outland
Home stadiumFranklin Field
1898 Eastern college football independents records
Conf. Overall
Team W   L   T W   L   T
Harvard   –   11 – 0 – 0
Drexel   –   7 – 0 – 0
Princeton   –   11 – 0 – 1
  –   12 – 1 – 0
Buffalo   –   8 – 1 – 0
Cornell   –   10 – 2 – 0
Swarthmore   –   9 – 2 – 0
Washington & Jefferson   –   9 – 2 – 0
Yale   –   9 – 2 – 0
Dickinson   –   8 – 2 – 0
Syracuse   –   8 – 2 – 1
Wesleyan   –   7 – 3 – 0
Western Penn.   –   5 – 2 – 1
Brown   –   6 – 4 – 0
Carlisle   –   6 – 4 – 0
Penn State   –   6 – 4 – 0
Pittsburgh College   –   6 – 4 – 1
Army   –   3 – 2 – 1
Vermont   –   3 – 2 – 1
Holy Cross   –   5 – 4 – 1
Bucknell   –   4 – 4 – 3
Fordham   –   1 – 1 – 2
Frankin & Marshall   –   4 – 4 – 2
New Hampshire   –   4 – 4 – 0
Amherst   –   4 – 5 – 1
Villanova   –   2 – 4 – 1
Lehigh   –   3 – 6 – 1
Boston College   –   2 – 5 – 1
Colgate   –   2 – 5 – 1
Temple   –   2 – 5 – 0
Lafayette   –   3 – 8 – 0
NYU   –   1 – 3 – 0
Rutgers   –   1 – 6 – 1
Tufts   –   1 – 9 – 0
Geneva   –   0 – 6 – 1

The 1898 Penn Quakers football team represented the University of Pennsylvania in the 1898 college football season.[1]

Schedule

DateOpponentSiteResultAttendanceSource
September 24Franklin & Marshall
W 41–0
September 28Gettysburg
  • Franklin Field
  • Philadelphia, PA
W 50–0
October 1Penn State
  • Franklin Field
  • Philadelphia, PA
W 40–0
October 5Mansfield Normal
  • Franklin Field
  • Philadelphia, PA
W 50–0
October 8Brown
  • Franklin Field
  • Philadelphia, PA
W 18–05,000[2]
October 12Virginia
  • Franklin Field
  • Philadelphia, PA
W 40–0
October 15Lehigh
  • Franklin Field
  • Philadelphia, PA
W 40–0
October 19Wesleyan
  • Franklin Field
  • Philadelphia, PA
W 17–03,500[3][4]
October 22Lafayette
  • Franklin Field
  • Philadelphia, PA
W 32–0
October 29Chicago
  • Franklin Field
  • Philadelphia, PA
W 23–11
November 5at Harvard
L 0–10[5]
November 12Carlisle
  • Franklin Field
  • Philadelphia, PA
W 35–5
November 25Cornell
  • Franklin Field
  • Philadelphia, PA (rivalry)
W 12–6

References

  1. ^ 1898 University of Pennsylvania football scores and results Archived October 9, 2013, at the Wayback Machine. College Football Data Warehouse. Retrieved on October 8, 2013.
  2. ^ "Penn, 18—Brown, 0". The Philadelphia Inquirer. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. October 9, 1898. p. 14. Retrieved March 12, 2022 – via Newspapers.com Open access icon.
  3. ^ "Penn Plays An Erratic Game—Wesleyan Shows A Strong Defense And Fair Offense". The Times. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. October 20, 1898. p. 8. Retrieved July 27, 2025 – via Newspapers.com Open access icon.
  4. ^ "Penn Plays Better—Defeats Wesleyan in an Interesting Game by the Score of 17 to 0". The Philadelphia Inquirer. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. October 20, 1898. p. 4. Retrieved July 27, 2025 – via Newspapers.com Open access icon.
  5. ^ "Harvard Wins! Ten Points Scored by Crimson and None by Pennsylvania". The Boston Post. November 6, 1898. pp. 1, 2 – via Newspapers.com.
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